This event at 30.09.2014. was attended by local policy makers, Universities , from non-profit organization whose mission is to promote international cooperation – there was Foundation for Partnership and Civil Society Development and our local RTTC that is a part of IDA in order to demonstrate our effort on a new innovation engine to transform knowledge into GDP as well as services offered by the NEXT IS that are designed to support the relationships between the actors of innovation, in the Countries of the Adriatic area as well as national and regional levels,. Examples of good practice and the need for closer cooperation among research institutes, researchers and business community.

REDAH, partner of NEXT Project, will organize the event “Presentation of the feasibility study for the waste management for wood industry” in the premises of Intera Technology park in Mostar Monday, 17th of November 2014., starting at 13.00.
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The Foundation “Partnership for Development” (Tirana-Albania), in the framework of the Next Project activities, has undertaken the initiative to launch the 1st National Competition “Your Innovative Idea”, whose focus is to promote SMART People, Innovators Networking and the Innovative ideas.
Taking into consideration that the Research and Technology Innovation in Albania is a priority of the Albanian Government, the Foundation PfD in collaboration with the National Agency for Research, Technology and Innovation (ARTI) has announced the launching of the initiative for the creation of the Innovators Network in Albania, and the first activity in this framework will be the Competition “Your Innovative Idea”.
This competition is intended to promote the “SMART PEOPLE”, generate innovative ideas that provide solutions, minimize risks and maximize impact through the technology and intelligent methods, contributing to the development of various sectors of the economy by improving the life of citizens.
The Innovative ideas can be submitted by Albanian Universities (professors, students), science and technology institutions, experts from various fields as well as individuals, youth and women, who aspire to change the world through the innovative ideas.
During this first phase, Foundation “Partnership for Development” in Albania is organizing various meetings with the Universities, business community, RTC etc, to lunch this Competition and to inform all interested about the possibilities that this initiative will offer to the participants.
This initiative will directly contribute to the NEXT Platform by furnishing and supplying it in a sustainable way with the proposals of innovative ideas.
Foundation “Partnership for Development” (PfD)Tirana – Albaniawww.foundationpfd.orghttp://foundationpfd.org/next/ideja-juaj-inovative/

In the framework of NEXT Project 023 “Collaborative Platform to support research and technology transfer”, on 28th October 2014, Foundation “Partnership for Development” (PfD) in collaboration the Faculty of Natural Science in Tirana, Department of Informatics, launched the Competition “Your Innovative Idea “.
This Competition is intended to promote the “SMART PEOPLE”, generate innovative ideas that provide solutions, minimize risks and maximize impact through the technology and intelligent methods, contributing to the development of various sectors of the economy by improving the life of citizens.
The Innovative ideas can be submitted by universities (professors, students), science and technology institutions, experts from various fields as well as individuals, youth and women, who aspire to change the world through the innovative ideas.
The Auditor and the Academic staff were provided by PfD Project Staff and Team of Experts, with all needed details and information regarding the competition process:
– What is the competition “Your Innovative Idea”?
– How to apply?
– The selection of ideas;
– What are the benefits from this competition?
– The guarantee of the innovative ideas proposals;
– Instructions for the application form
– Etc,
All participants were oriented and invited to visit the website www.foundationpfd.org and http://foundationpfd.org/next/ideja-juaj-inovative/ for more info related to the aplication form and steps to follow.
A high interest were shown by the students to participate in this competition initiative, who adressed many questions about the possible fields of proposals, shared preliminary information for potential ideas, etc., and were provided with the answers regarding issues of interest.
The meeting concluded with the greeting note from Dr. Tome Preku, Executive Director of PfD Foundation, who amongst others also emphasised the importance of participation into this kind of activities and invited the students and the academic staff to promote this initiative through communication means (social networks, university communication tools, etc) as widely as possible, in order that all interested can become part of this initiative.
This iniative will continue to spread up all over Albanian territory, through promotion and informative meetings and campaing with all potential actors and stakeholders that wish to promote and launch their innovative idea or/and project and will be open up to 15th of Dicember 2014.
The information and promotion meetings will continue to be organized all over the territory in the upcoming period.

Chamber of Economy of Montenegro organized the event devoted to NEXT Project implementation under the title ‘’IT sector in Montenegro – current state and development preconditions” from September 29th to 3rd October 2014. Here some photos of the Event
XXI INFOFEST was held from 28th of September till 4th of October in hotel “Maestral” – Milocer/Budva. Opening ceremony, together with artistic program and announcement of participants was on September 28th at 20:30h. Festival program ended on 3rd of October at 20:00h with award recognition for most successful participants and final gathering called “Evening with friends”..
Program of INFOFEST 2104 included exhibitions, panel discussions and presentation contents, such as:

With great pleasure we emphasize that the relevant ministries of the four countries of the region decided to sign agreement on gradual reduction on the price of roaming services in mobile telephony, during INFOFEST 2014, in the hotel “Maestral”. This important event is derived from the Agreement on cooperation on building of the information society, which, in October 2013, was signed by Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro, also on this site. So INFOFEST emerged as the natural place for publication of important regional events that contribute to regional cooperation and quality of life.
INFOFEST 2014 had 1.045 registered participants from 26 countries, (a total for period 1994-2013 – 20.058). During INFOFEST 2014, 25 media reported.
Beside the official program quality, INFOFEST participants enjoyed excellent atmosphere and series of animation gatherings.
More information on: http://www.infofest.com/en/

Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje in the framework of Next Project (Collaborative platform to support research and technology transfer) organized the workshop «Business development through research and innovation».
The workshop was held on 29th July 2014 in hotel Kragujevac (Kragujevac, Serbia).
The workshop presented the strategic framework and infrastructure for support innovation in Serbia, both at national and regional level, as well as examples of good practice, through the prism of the need for closer cooperation among research institutes, researchers and business community. Participants were institutions, organizations, clusters and SMEs from national and regional level. They presented their activities and plans in field of R&D and innovation, and possibilities for strengthening cooperation among knowledge triangle.

Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje in the framework of Next Project (Collaborative platform to support research and technology transfer) is organizing workshop «Business development through research and innovation».
Workshop will be held on 29th July 2014 in hotel Kragujevac (Kragujevac, Serbia).
The workshop aims to present the strategic framework and infrastructure for support innovation in Serbia, both at national and regional level, as well as examples of good practice, through the prism of the need for closer cooperation among research institutes, researchers and business community.

The scope of this call is to provide support to innovative SMEs, including start-ups, for the design and creation of innovative applications, in order to foster the delivery of mobile public services.Specific Challenge: Current societal and economic challenges as well as rising expectations to reduce the burden on users, put pressure on all public administrations to provide efficient, open and citizen-centric public services.
Due to the increased use of mobile technology as well as the increasing availability of public information, data and online services, public services can be transformed. Coupling open public data and services with information and services offered by the private sector can lead to innovative, user-friendly and personalised services that can be accessed easily.
Because of their size, knowledge and agility, SMEs are key actors for the provision of those innovative services. The “apps” market for mobile devices is a very dynamic market, which mostly lacks application specifically for the public sector. Engaging SMEs into the potentially huge public sector innovation market is a challenge for local and regional public authorities.
The scope of this action is to provide support to innovative SMEs, including start-ups, for the design and creation of innovative applications, in order to foster the delivery of mobile public services.
The aim is to help the interaction of citizens and businesses with public administrations. This may be done through the combination of public and private sector services, through mobile technologies. Although they may be first piloted in a local context – with the involvement of public administrations and end users – the solutions need to ensure replicability, also taking into account multi-lingualism and, where necessary, the cross-border dimension. Scalability and sustainability issues are to be considered.

Emerging innovative ICT technologies and processes need to be customized, integrated, tested and validated in order to strengthen European SMEs.Specific Challenge: For Europe’s competitiveness in manufacturing, it is crucial that advances in ICT are taken up in engineering and manufacturing “at large” as soon as they have the appropriate maturity level.
Two types of innovation experiments are supported: Driven by the requirements of first-time users, Application Experiments bring together all actors of the value chain and experts necessary to equip new users with novel products or services and assist them in customising and applying these in their respective environments. In Equipment Assessment Experiments, suppliers of innovative high-tech equipment install and assess their prototypes or products in production-like environments and validate them in a manufacturing line or in an industrial environment that is very close to manufacturing conditions.
Activities are expected to be clustered in larger projects to achieve critical mass and to better exploit EU-added value. Common tasks include: targeted dissemination; management of calls for new actions; exploitation of synergies across actions.
The action may involve financial support to third parties. The consortium will define the selection process of additional users and suppliers running the experiments for which financial support will be granted (typically in the order of EUR 50 000 – 150 000 per party). Maximum 50% of the EU funding should be allocated to this purpose.

In the framework of NEXT Project 023 “Collaborative Platform to support research and technology transfer”, the Foundation “Partnership for Development” (PfD) in collaboration with the National Agency for Research, Technology and Innovation (ARTI) and the Faculty of Economy in Tirana, launched the 1st Competition “Your Innovative Idea “ on 30 June 2014, at the premises of the Faculty of Economy of Tirana University.
This iniative that started up with this first meeting nearby the premisses of the Faculty of Economy, will continue to spread up all over Albanian territory, through promotion and informative meetings and campaing with all potential actors and stakeholders that wish to promote and launch their innovative idea or/and project and will be open up to 15th of November 2014.

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